Gooooooood morning, Cyberspace!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Software, not hardware, will drive quantum and neuromorphic computing
- Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this. - The Art of Logging. Are logs for humans? Or machines? Or both?
- Interior AI autofills photo of room with CG furniture/art
- Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
- Using machine learning to predict the leads that close
- Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
A reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero is used to discover efficient and provably correct algorithms for matrix multiplication, finding faster algorithms for a variety of matrix sizes. - Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
- The AI Scaling Hypothesis
- Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
- German rail operator says train disruption caused by sabotage
Blockchain and decentralization
- Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, discards 13M doses
- Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
Non-virtual money in a non-virtual world. - Apache Pegasus – A a distributed key-value storage system
Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance key-value store – GitHub – apache/incubator-pegasus: Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent… - The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
Woman computer scientist of the week
Molly E. Holzschlag is a U.S. author, lecturer and advocate of the Open Web. She has written or co-authored 35 books on web design and open standards, including The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web. In 1998, she was named one of the Webgrrls San Francisco chapter’s Top 25 Women on the Web.
Cloud and architecture
- You should have lots of AWS accounts
- Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
- Google picks South Africa for its first cloud region in Africa
- Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers
Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers – GitHub – maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker: Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
- Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment
- Gcloud storage: up to 94% faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.
Development and languages
- Great Works in Programming Languages
- mod_wasm: Run WebAssembly with Apache
- Highlights from Git 2.38
- PS5 4.03 Kernel Exploit
An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS5 on 4.03FW/4.51FW – GitHub – Cryptogenic/PS5-4.03-Kernel-Exploit: An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS… - The deception of “buying” digital movies
- Native port of Digital Research’s seminal 1977 operating system CP/M to the 6502
- Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
- CMSC 430: Design and Implementation of Programming Languages
- WebAssembly Is Not A Stack Machine
- From Pythonista to Rustacean
A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean – GitHub – rochacbruno/py2rs: A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean - What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?
- Take Advantage of Git Rebase
- Decision Trees in Python: Predicting Diabetes – Statistically Relevant
- Recursion got into programming: intrigue, betrayal, and advanced semantics
- I changed my mind about writing new JavaScript frameworks
- Patients can now access all their health records digitally
No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages. Under a new federal law, you can now get your health information digitally. - C Programming on System 6
- Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub
- Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance
Quote of the week
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
— Scott Adams
Enterprises
- Google “Pepper”: When a Brand Becomes More Popular Than the Meaning of the Word
- New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla
- Pelikan, Twitter’s framework for building caches
- Stadia died because no one trusts Google
- Tesla Vehicle Production and Deliveries for 3Q 2022
- Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia
- Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
- Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
- Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic
Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. - From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate
After a high flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job. - How fateful?
- Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
- Algorithmic Curation Impacts Media Exposure in Twitter Timelines
- The Fakoo Alphabet
- NVIDIA and nouveau
- Soso.ooo – Google Search Alternative
- Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account
- Musk’s trial hasn’t stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge
- Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
- All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets
- AMD Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- After cutting radar, Tesla now dropping ultrasonic sensors from its EVs
- Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens
- Intel, SiFive Demo High-Performance RISC-V on Intel 4
Intel, SiFive demonstrated high-performance RISC-V Horse Creek development platform on Intel 4 Process. - Candidate Insists Google Blocking His Website; He Requested It Not Be Indexed
Other news
- Penguincrab: Unsafe Wrapper for Linux Kernel Library in Rust
- The banker who caused the 1929 stock crash
At the outset of the Depression, Charles Mitchell was the most wanted banker in America. Today, his name’s largely been forgotten. - Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest – Running in Production with Scissors
- Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis
Land plants are green because their photosynthetic pigments reflect green light, even though those wavelengths hold the most energy. Scientists finally understand why. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model… - Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
- DIY Digital Room Correction with Linux
- “Please be our voice” – Message from students at Sharif University of Technology
- “Please be our voice” – Message from students at Sharif University of Technology
- Linux Kernel 6.0
- PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy
- PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy
- Not my fault but I gotta deal with it – how I learned about corporate firewalls
- Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back
- Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?
- How to move a running process into a tmux session
- Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux IP(8) Correctly Works
- Journalists – 2022 Midterm Elections – Legal Guide
- Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 to Avoid Damaging the Display
- New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard
- Upgrade to Linux
- Managers with a business degree reduce employees’ wages, do not increase profit
- Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
- Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released…
The importance of memory and how it relates to learning
Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.
Biohybrid microrobots consisting of nanoparticle-modified microalgae are constructed for active drug delivery in the lungs. In an acute bacterial pneumonia model, the microrobots effectively reduce bacterial burden and lessen animal mortality.
A state-of-the-art AI system generates high-quality videos from text prompts
A Go microservices framework. Contribute to go-micro/go-micro development by creating an account on GitHub.
This article compares the performance of Google, AWS, and Azure ARM-based servers in network IO-intensive scenarios through the API gateway Apache APISIX.
One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself.
Run WordPress in the browser thanks to WebAssembly magic – GitHub – WordPress/wordpress-wasm: Run WordPress in the browser thanks to WebAssembly magic
Ziti: programmable network overlay and associated edge components for application-embedded, zero-trust networking – OpenZiti
Enjoy a brand new Windows desktop experience with Cairo.
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m
Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code. – roapi/README.md at main · roapi/roapi
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.
Except me. As of one minute ago I confirmed what I noticed last Wednesday. According to the all seeing Google, on the entire world wide web there are but three Creative Commons licensed images of a…
Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago.
Microsoft has followed a small group of its competitors in building a VPN service directly into its own browser. The VPN feature, known as “Microsoft Edge Secure Network,” has rolled out to a limited selection of users in the latest Edge Canary version.
Which is good! Boring = success
BOSTON – Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe Biogen drugs.
The best way to stop a hacker is to think like one.
Seer – a gui frontend to gdb. Contribute to epasveer/seer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor – GitHub – carson-katri/dream-textures: Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor
My home IP ended up on Cloudflare’s naughty list for six days. Most websites and many apps loaded slowly, partially, or not at all. Just had to wait it out.
Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ? – GitHub – extrawurst/gitui: Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ?
A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
Modern scheduling library for Python. Contribute to Miksus/rocketry development by creating an account on GitHub.
The pair face a weak economy and powerful new rivals
A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads – a notification of a DMCA takedown request that has resulted in our website being removed from Google Search. In this email, Google summarized the takedown request (which can be viewed here) which accuses our company, Kapwing, of
A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and backends – GitHub – libredirect/libredirect: A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and back…
The Danish Data Protection Agency has looked into the tool Google Analytics, its settings, and the terms under which the tool is provided. On the basis of this review, the Danish Data Protection Agency concludes that the tool cannot, without more, be used lawfully. Lawful use requires the implementation of supplementary measures in addition to the settings provided by Google.
Google suffered a significant loss when a European court denied its appeal of an antitrust decision.
The company wants to establish an open, royalty-free alternative to Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. The project is known internally as Project Caviar.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
Ethernet Expansion Card gives you ultra fast and reliable networking over an RJ45 jack
The historic upgrade casts aside the miners who had previously driven the blockchain, with promises of massive environmental benefits.
The Merge has officially been triggered, marking Ethereum’s transition from proof of work to proof of stake.
In September 2018, someone bought an angry cartoon cat for the equivalent $170,000. It was big win for CryptoKitties, the worldâs first blockchain gaming hit. But the sky-high transaction obscured a more difficult truth: CryptoKitties was dying.
Install the free app that makes your phone’s Internet more fast, private, and reliable.
Enable near real-time insights on operational data with Datastream for BigQuery.
Optimize the audio quality of loudspeakers. Contribute to erdewit/HiFiScan development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hack to get Github Copilot working in the terminal with bash – GitHub – maxwell-bland/copilot-in-the-terminal: Hack to get Github Copilot working in the terminal with bash
More details are coming on September 27th.
During a presentation at Hot Chips 34, Intel detailed how their upcoming Meteor Lake processors employ chiplets. Like AMD, Intel is seeking to get the modularity and lower costs associated with usi…
Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from almost all ‘infected’ websites!
Sponsor: HYTE Y60 computer case on Amazon – https://geni.us/3ngWPEVGA has terminated its relationship with NVIDIA. EVGA will no longer be manufacturing video…
A guide to the adventurer. Contribute to joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_modern_Rust development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hacktoberfest: a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors.
Hackers Mind Map. Contribute to nadrad/h-m-m development by creating an account on GitHub.
The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you’ve grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.
The city has settled with two people whose cars were towed from legal parking spots into illegal spots, then ticketed. Two others have refused Philadelphia’s offer.
In industry-standard tests of AI inference, NVIDIA H100 GPUs set world records, A100 GPUs showed leadership in mainstream performance and Jetson AGX Orin led in edge computing.
YouTube is introducing new products that will allow learners to go deeper on subjects they are passionate about and creators to provide structured learning content.
How I wrote my own background distributed task queue to replace Celery at WakaTime.
To say Tesla is merely interested in machine learning is an understatement. The electric car maker built an in-house supercomputer named Dojo, optimized for training its machine learning models. Un…
A general purpose programming language. Contribute to tibordp/alumina development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly – GitHub – lunatic-solutions/lunatic: Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft – GitHub – IdreesInc/Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft
The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.
Four books and a paper on the most powerful wonks in the world
Sonja Trauss is raising $1 million from a slate of wealthy individuals to intimidate SF into complying with state housing regulations.
AI image generators like Stable Diffusion are powering new websites that generate highly customize porn. The trend could have far-reaching consequences.
Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
#10 on my Re:Invent 2022 Wishlist countdown
PLDB: a Programming Language Database. Contribute to breck7/pldb development by creating an account on GitHub.
As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go, but not with C or C++1, The Odin language is a great fit. Proper systems language Odin is a systems langauge…
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.
encrypted git hosting should be easy. Contribute to nathants/git-remote-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September …
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September …
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today’s guest is Rick Wolter. He’s an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that’s all they need to know about Rick. But today’s… […]
Google has announced last month that they will be changing their Play Store policies for developers. These changes aim to improve the ads experience, tighten security and limit misinformation according to the company. The policies are going into effect later in 2022, which all existing apps will need to comply with. One of the main policy changes concerns the VPN Service which will take effect on November 1, 2022: Google claims to be cracking down on apps that are using the VPN service to tr…
Contribute to bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simply click ‘Next’ and continue to be amazed. Select your favorite country. Play a slideshow in fullscreen. Use as a screensaver. Best way to kill your time.
Multi-channel fulfillment at scale
AutoHotkey for Linux (X11-based systems). Contribute to phil294/AHK_X11 development by creating an account on GitHub.
The new payments system will allow faster payments of bills, paychecks and other transfers around-the-clock instead of days.
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
A course that breaks down every aspect of modern progressive web app development.
Following the cancellation of thousands of flights this summer, the German state of Lower Saxony, in the country’s north west, has renewed calls to abolish advance payment for flight bookings.
Stanford engineers created a more efficient and flexible AI chip, which could bring the power of AI into tiny edge devices.
At Hot Chips 34, we got a glimpse of the Tesla Dojo custom AI supercomputer, its V1 Interface NICs with HBM and how it scales data loading
Learn about The Merge – when Mainnet Ethereum joins the Beacon Chain coordinated proof-of-stake system.
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
Pythonâs still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills
Hi, I'm surprised I didn't find an existing discussion with this topic. Some services like github-releases.githubusercontent.com or user pages do support IPv6, however the webpage (github.c…
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
Even if you don’t know what to look for, you’ll probably be able to guess if something was created for Netflix just based on a few frames. 
Experts say case highlights dangers of automated detection of child sexual abuse images
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post. 
An article explaining why Xen wasn’t affected by the recent RETBleed security issue on Intel CPUs.
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
Clipchamp video editor is now available as an app for Windows PC. Drag, drop and create professional videos in minutes.
Everyone should know why.
A recent post on Reddit’s main economic forum included a 2018 graphic that shows that…
Edo Liberty, Pinecone CEO, provides a glimpse into the journey behind building a database company, including some insights into the latest innovations around the product and vector search.
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost. In a memorandum to federal departments and agencies, Dr. Alondra Nelson, the head of OSTP, delivered guidance for agencies to update their public access…